One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.